I prefer the sturdiness of wooden pencils when outlining hinges/handles/whatever onto surfaces (or objects in general).Apart from those rough sketches it doesn't matter to me what kind of pen(cil) I use, so ++wood.

Pencils, whether mechanical or wood, are the spawn of the devil, and must be terminated with extreme prejudice. Pens are where it's at. I'm left handed, and used pencils in grade school. The side of my hand would be gray, every day.

scarecrovv wrote:Pencils, whether mechanical or wood, are the spawn of the devil, and must be terminated with extreme prejudice. Pens are where it's at. I'm left handed, and used pencils in grade school. The side of my hand would be gray, every day.

No, you're just silly for writing in the wrong direction for your hand position.Latin script is for right-handed people. Go write Arabic or smt.

Pencils are great utensils for rough drawings. Pens fail on a lot of surfaces. Charcoal is just annoying in any situation (except for barbecues). And keyboards are for actual writing.

scarecrovv wrote:Pencils, whether mechanical or wood, are the spawn of the devil, and must be terminated with extreme prejudice. Pens are where it's at. I'm left handed, and used pencils in grade school. The side of my hand would be gray, every day.

Didn't go for the weird "turn the page and write sideways" trick?

I personally hate using pencils, but I much prefer wooden ones when I have to.The mechanical ones have too much give when using them; the lead isn't rigid and the whole thing feels cheap and crap.

I like pencils, and it's mechanical pencils all the way for me, because of the fine point. I got unreasonably excited when I learned there were 0.3mm pencils, and immediately bought one (and continued to be unreasonably excited until I got back to my office and could try it out).

They are both useful. However, mechanical pencils are replaced by computers (for writing). Wooden pencils are useful for sketching/drawing, and I dont have that digital replacement (e.g. tablet with Photoshop), so I'm going with wooden, final answer.

I think you misunderstand the nature of "pen", my wangle-handed friend.

Spoiler:

Photograph of ink smudges ruining a text.**I posit that the causation of this mess being unrelated to left-handedness is outweighed by the magnitude of the mess.

If you refuse to cede this point, my next argument will be a recording of the horrible sound a nib makes when you apply pressure to it in the wrong direction.

Wood pencils are far superior to mechanical pencils. Wood pencils inform you that they require maintenance by gently and gradually increasing the breadth of their line, whereas mechanical pencils simply tear your paper when the lead runs down and you run into the metal feed.

Wood pencils are very hardy - should you break any part of one, it can always be sharpened back to a usable state. Should you break the tip of a mechanical pencil, or its feeding mechanism, you might as well throw it away, along with that snobby little case of overpriced slivers of carbon you had to purchase separately in order to make it work.

eviloatmeal wrote:Wood pencils inform you that they require maintenance bygently and gradually increasing the breadth of their linekeeping a sharp point for only about 10 seconds of writing before needing resharpening, an interval that is easily tracked mentally.

eviloatmeal wrote:Wood pencils inform you that they require maintenance bygently and gradually increasing the breadth of their linekeeping a sharp point for only about 10 seconds of writing before needing resharpening, an interval that is easily tracked mentally.

Fixed.

Unless the lead isn't sticking out of its cylindrical casing at all, there's always an angle at which the lead touches a flat surface at a single point (or very small area, since both materials aren't mathematically perfect).Indeed, you don't get very far keeping the pencil's orientation constant. It's a probable reason why wooden pencils don't have gyroscopes in general.

I think you misunderstand the nature of "pen", my wangle-handed friend.

Spoiler:

Photograph of ink smudges ruining a text.**I posit that the causation of this mess being unrelated to left-handedness is outweighed by the magnitude of the mess.

If you refuse to cede this point, my next argument will be a recording of the horrible sound a nib makes when you apply pressure to it in the wrong direction.

I believe it is you who (deliberately) misunderstand. Both of the phenomena that you describe have happened to me exactly zero times in my entire life, because nib pens are a silly, niche anachronism. We both know perfectly well that I was talking about ballpoint pens.

Sturdy, steel-barrelled mechanical pencils for me. You can do a lot more with a wooden penicl, but I'm going to be doing all of that sort of stuff in the painting app anyway. Wooden pencils are just far too much fuss for a little gain.

So much depends upon a red wheel barrow (>= XXII) but it is not going to be installed.

Wood. They can shade, they last longer, they don't have the tiny piece problem, they smell nice, they're cheap, they come in 6-sided varieties.

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